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If Cruelty Isn’t the Point, What Is?

7 min readMay 21, 2025

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We are deporting people to places like South Sudan and El Salvador, it doesn’t make us any safer

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They followed the rules. They came legally. Now, they’re being sent to violence, chaos, and near-certain danger.

Department of Homeland Security(DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem (aka “ICE Barbie”) says we are only deporting “the worst of the worst.” She has commercials running with the number of criminals we have sent packing. As this is the same DHS that is considering a reality show where immigrants compete against each other for prizes like a $10,000 gift card to Starbucks and citizenship.

That game sound like a combo of Squid Game and the Hunger Games and with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” a the helm, it sounds like cruelty at its most entertaining.

One problem with Noem’s statements about who we are sending to hellish places like the El Salvador CECOT prison and South Sudan, is that a bunch of the people being sent are here legally and have committed no crimes.

According to the Cato Institute:

Shortly after the US government illegally and unconstitutionally transported about 240 Venezuelans to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s horrific “terrorism” prison on March 15, CBS News published their names. A subsequent CBS News investigation found that 75 percent of the…

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Alyson Chadwick
Alyson Chadwick

Written by Alyson Chadwick

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